PEN-L
mailing list archive

Other Periods  | Other mailing lists  | Search  ]

Date:  [ Previous  | Next  ]      Thread:  [ Previous  | Next  ]      Index:  [ Author  | Date  | Thread  ]

Getting in step with the times....



this is great!

 http://www.kirktoons.com/busheviks/busheviks.html

in 1992 or thereabouts, a liberal columnist for the NATION (either
Alterman or Corn) wrote a column of all the sneaky ways that incoming
President Clinton could institute a liberal agenda via executive order
and other ways that did not rely on Congress and the courts (assuming,
of course, that Clinton was in some ways a New Deal liberal or some
sort of 1960s liberal). I think this is what the Bush League did,
except of course their ideology is more like that of Pres. William
McKinley. In addition, the BL is organized as more of a "Leninist"
party with a seemingly greater willingness to break the law than
Clinton had. So the word "Bushevik" seems appropriate.

(Lenin's pre-1917 party was hardly "Leninist" or "Bolshevik" in the
contemporary sense of these words.)

--
Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles



Other Periods  | Other mailing lists  | Search  ]